Occupation: Artist Birth: May 31, 1938
We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow..
My work is about helping humanity..
Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings..
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why ….
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, o….
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth..
People always understand everything in retrospect..
If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person..
People don't hurt what they love..
I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together..
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It….
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did..
I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to pla….
Most wonderful things are unconscious..
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in….
I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school..
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it ….
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; thos….
When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?".
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe ….
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. ….